Mary Grace Buckley — a writer and retail sales associate from St. Louis, Missouri
Edgar Castillo — a digital media specialist from Brooklyn, New York
Nan Bauer — a writer from Brooklyn, Michigan (whose 2-day cash winnings total $21,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nan | $1,200 | $5,000 | $11,000 |
$14,801
3-day champion: $36,601 |
$14,200
19 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Edgar | $2,200 | $5,800 | $3,400 |
$3
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,400
15 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Mary Grace | $-1,600 | $800 | $7,400 |
$5,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,400
14 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| IN THE NOV. 14-20, 1998TV GUIDE | FAIRY TALES | JELLY BELLY FLAVORS | MUSICAL GEOGRAPHY | PROVERBIALLY SPEAKING | NAMES WITH THE SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER |
|
$200
[24]
"A mythological creature is suspected in a death. Ruben Blades, Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny"
The X-Files
Mary Grace
|
$200
[12]
In the Grimms' version, this creature becomes a prince not from a kiss but when he's thrown against the wall
frog
Mary Grace
|
$200
[4]
It's not just root beer but this brand of root beer
A&W
Edgar
|
$200
[1]
The composer of thepieceyou're hearing was born in 1860 in this country
Spain
Nan
|
$200
[8]
"A fool & his" this "are soon parted"
money
Edgar
|
$200
[16]
The father of a "Great" Macedonian
Philip
Nan
|
|
$400
[25]
"Mitch befriends a young boy who joins the junior lifeguards in hopes of escaping a brutal home life"
Baywatch
Mary Grace
|
$400
[13]
Here's a 19th century illustration of this character
Puss in Boots
Edgar
|
$400
[5]
Orville Redenbacher was said to be a fan of buttered this flavor
popcorn
Nan
|
$400
[2]
It's the city in the title of the 1873workwe've selected
Vienna
Edgar
|
$400
[22]
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of" this
cure
Nan
|
$400
[18]
4 kings of Scotland were of this name, including the son of Duncan
Malcolm
Mary Grace
|
|
$600
[26]
"Something stinks about the dinner party Niles... throws at Maris's beach house: a seal carcass... below the deck"
Frasier
Edgar
|
$800
[15]
The 4 words that complete the line from "Jack and the Beanstalk", "Fee, fi, fo, fum, I smell the..."
the blood of an Englishman
Edgar
|
$600
[9]
No alcohol (darn!) in the cocktail classics mix with flavors like peach bellini & strawberry this
daiquiri
Edgar
|
$600
[3]
Heard here is an "Overture On Three" themes from this vast country
Russia
Edgar
|
$600
[23]
"The lion shall lie down with" this animal
the lamb
Mary Grace
|
$600
[19]
Irish poet Heaney, for one
Seamus
Nan
|
|
$800
[27]
"The original bad boy... is back. Tonight, the return of Dylan McKay"
Beverly Hills, 90210
Mary Grace
|
$1,000
[17]
After the queen correctly guesses his name, this little man, in a rage, tears himself in two
Rumpelstiltskin
Edgar
|
$800
[11]
Be careful with the Beanboozled set: skunk spray & licorice look identical, as do lawn clippings & this citrus flavor
lime
Nan
Mary Grace
|
$800
[6]
Ottorino Respighi's "Fountains Of" this city where the composer liveddepicts4 of them
Rome
Nan
|
$800
[29]
"Rob" this guy "to pay" this second guy
Peter to pay Paul
Nan
|
$800
[20]
With a name from the Hebrew for "grace", she was the mother of the prophet Samuel
Hannah
Nan
|
|
$1,000
[28]
She "stands trial willingly... for a murder committed when she was evil. 'No defense for what I did,' she tells Gabrielle"
Xena: Warrior Princess
Edgar
|
DD
$2,000
[14]
An ailing Chinese emperor tells this bird, you have "banished death from my heart, with your sweet song"
a nightingale
Edgar
|
$1,000
[10]
This berry is alphabetically first in the superfruit mix
açaí
Edgar
Mary Grace
|
$1,000
[7]
At "Holyrood, where Queen Mary lived & loved" Mendelssohn found the start of this"national" symphony
the Scottish symphony
Nan
|
$1,000
[30]
This "is nine points of the law"
possession
Edgar
|
$1,000
[21]
First name of the literary character whose 1726 "Travels" took him far & wide
Lemuel (Gulliver)
Nan
|
| CANADIAN NATIONAL PARKS | RADIO | PROTESTANTISM | HISTORIANS' TERMS | ON "PIN"s | NEEDLES |
|
$400
[26]
Bottle of rum or not, British Columbia's Yoho National Park has amazing views of this mountain range
the Rockies
Mary Grace
|
$400
[3]
Here's the voice of Chris Thile, who has replaced a legend as the host of this program
A Prairie Home Companion
Mary Grace
|
$400
[1]
The word Protestant was introduced at the Diet of Speyer in this century
the 16th century
Mary Grace
|
$400
[5]
A letter or diary is this kind of source, from the Latin for "first" or "main"
primary
Edgar
|
$400
[6]
It's a term for various aquatic turtles
terrapin
Edgar
|
$400
[18]
This practice involves inserting needles into any of hundreds of points along 12 basic meridians
acupuncture
Edgar
|
|
DD
$1,000
[27]
In La Mauricie National Park you can observe this beloved rodent, also the mascot of Parks Canada
a beaver
Mary Grace
|
$800
[4]
This 2-letter dial in the U.S. was dubbed VHF in Europe
FM
|
$800
[2]
Early Protestantism reduced these from 7 to only 2, one of them being baptism
sacraments
Nan
|
$800
[14]
Studying Lincoln is top-down history; focusing on soldiers & slaves is this, a term popularized by Prof. Jesse Lemisch
bottom-up
Nan
|
$800
[7]
This little gland in the brain produces melatonin
the pineal gland
Mary Grace
|
$800
[19]
The DJ is using the needle to create this hip-hop effect
scratching
Mary Grace
|
|
$1,200
[28]
There are only 20 main islands in this park on the St. Lawrence but a lot more in its name
Thousand Islands
|
$1,200
[20]
Sirius XM rocks out in the underground garage from this bandanna-ed Springsteen sideman
Steven Van Zandt
Nan
|
$1,200
[11]
Organized in Augusta, Georgia, the largest U.S. Protestant denomination is the SBC, or this convention
the Southern Baptists
Nan
|
$1,200
[15]
It's quantitative history if you're basing a thesis on the U.K. producing a record 292 mil. metric tons of this fuel in 1913
coal
Nan
|
$1,200
[8]
French gives us the name of these old-timey glasses
pince-nez
Nan
|
$1,200
[22]
Seattle's monorail was built to bring visitors to this landmark in 1962
the Space Needle
Nan
|
| — |
$1,600
[21]
This provider is the radio home of NCAA football & basketball, not just UCLA games
Westwood One
|
$2,000
[13]
John Knox led the establishment of this branch of Protestantism that uses a system of elders to govern
the Presbyterians
Mary Grace
|
$1,600
[16]
In counterfactual history, you game out the result if things had been different, like if this May-June 1940 evacuation failed
Dunkirk
Nan
|
$1,600
[9]
In a work by Gilbert & Sullivan, Captain Corcoran commands this title vessel
the H.M.S. Pinafore
Mary Grace
|
$1,600
[23]
Though beautiful, the Norway type of this evergreen isn't the best Christmas tree because of poorneedleretention
a spruce
Edgar
|
| — |
$2,000
[25]
This last name of singer James can mean a marijuana cigarette & his "You're Beautiful" got a radio edit for a drug lyric
Blunt
Edgar
Mary Grace
|
DD
$3,200
[12]
In 1960 Geoffrey Fisher, the 99th man in this post, became the first modern one to visit the Vatican
the Archbishop of Canterbury
Nan
|
$2,000
[17]
The view of history as a march toward liberal democracy is named for this less-monarchist old British party
the Whigs
Mary Grace
|
$2,000
[10]
A type of ode is named for this Greek poet
Pindar (or Pindarus)
Nan
|
$2,000
[24]
Fancy types of this fabric include Venetian needle & Irish needle
lace
Nan
Mary Grace
|
The tiny town of Cayce, Kentucky was the home & supplied the nickname of a man famous in this job
an engineer